The lead pastor at North Carolina’s largest mega church is promoting his latest book from the pulpit at his tax-exempt non-profit church.Pastor Steven Furtick is promoting “Crash the Chatterbox,” in bookstores next week.
Elevation Church Chief Financial Officer Chunks Corbett emailed us a statement (read below) saying Furtick is selling the book to the church at his author’s discount for the express purpose of the church earning a tidy profit on book sales – but he declines to say how many copies the church purchased at the discount price.
Corbett said Furtick does not make any profit on sales of the book through the church and that Furtick is not trying to “achieve New York Times bestseller list status – with this or any previous book.”
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